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2026-04-15

New episode of Skholé: Telescopic reading with Parham Aledavood

In this new episode of Skholé, Yann Audin welcomes Parham Aledavood.

Parham Aledavood is a PhD student in literature, specializing in digital humanities, at the Université de Montréal, and serves as a student representative for the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. He holds a master’s degree in linguistics and literary studies from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and his thesis was awarded the MUMA Scholarship for Literary Studies as well as the Herman Servotte Prize. Since its relocation to Montreal in 2025, Parham has been Associate Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, where he also teaches. In 2024, he received the Ian Lancashire Student Promise Award for his work on the relationship between distant reading and close reading, published in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique.

Episode Summary

Traditional literary studies focus on a small number of texts at a time, but new digital tools allow researchers to explore vast collections of novels and poems that they would never be able to read in a lifetime. However, these methods are often criticized for losing sight of the literariness of their object of study. Today, Parham Aledavood discusses telescopic reading, a research methodology applied to literature that combines distant reading and close reading. His work lies at the intersection of quantitative and qualitative methods. It is an iterative process at the crossroads of disciplines.

Available on the podcast website.

Also available on all major podcast platforms (Spotify, Apple, Google, etc.).

Credits

Guest: Parham Aledavood
Interviewer: Yann Audin, with the voice of Clara Grometto
Editing: Emma Walker-Dubé
Original concept: Marcello Vitali-Rosati

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